We caught 4 states sharing personal health data with Big Tech

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• PirateFrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Health care exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn.

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• Tim_Bisley@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Here's the article about the class action lawsuit - https://themarkup.org/impact/2025/05/02/after-markup-investigation-linkedin-and-google-face-lawsuit-alleging-improper-access-to-health-data

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  • GhostlyPixel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For those affected specifically by Covered California, although I wouldn’t be surprised to see suits for other states pop up

    A proposed class action, the lawsuit seeks to represent everyone who had information transmitted to the tech companies by Covered California

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• Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can these types of post include countries in the title? This USA defaultism makes the experience worse for everyone else with no benefit whatsoever

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This needs to end. I hope the lawsuit brings us a step closer to it.

  And at this point, nobody can claim ignorance or incompetence. Online portals that deal with sensitive data, you need to code them properly.

  Not that I don’t believe there was some profitable motive behind it.

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• j0ester@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Would the federal Health and Human Services Department even care? Do they even care about HIPAA now?

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• ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’re surprised?

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  • cappielung@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fair assessment. But that doesn’t mean we should dismiss it when it comes to light. Shout about it, don’t dismiss it.

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  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No. But glad there’s a class action lawsuit coming. You’d prefer not to see an article about it?

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• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And big tech selling their analyses to health insurance crooks for outrageous amounts of money so that the crooks can optimise their profits by asking for higher prices for health issues that occur more frequently (and integrate the cost of these analyses into the costs as well lol). All of this can still be done without violating privacy and anonymity but still fuck people over majorly.

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